Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 90 Part 1.djvu/1411

 PUBLIC LAW 94-431—SEPT. 30, 1976

90 STAT. 1361

ums authorized under section 222 of the National Housing Act, as amended (12 U.S.C. I7l5ni), an amount not to exceed $1,223,947,000. TITLE VI—GENERAL PROVISIONS WAIVER OF RESTRICTIONS

SEC. 601. The Secretary of each military department may proceed to establish or develop installations and facilities under this Act without regard to section 3648 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C. 529), and sections 4774 and 9774 of title 10, United States Code. The authority to place permanent or temporary improvements on land includes authority for surveys, administration, overhead, planning, and supervision incident to construction. That authority may be exercised before title to the land is approved under section 355 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (40 U.S.C. 255), and even though the land is held temporarily. The authority to acquire real estate or land includes authority to make surveys and to acquire land, and interests in land (including temporary use), by gift, purchase, exchange of Government-owned land, or otherwise. APPROPRIATIONS LIMITATIONS

SEC. 602. There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for the purposes of this Act, but appropriations for public works projects authorized by title I, II, III, IV, and V shall not / GXC66Q.^^

(1) for title I: Inside the United States, $419,837,000; outside the United States, $164,661,000; or a total of $584,498,000. (2) for title II: Inside the United States, $481,580,000; outside the United States, $19,356,000; or a total of $500,936,000. (3) for title III: Inside the United States, $679,759,000; outside the United States, $56,650,000; or a total of $736,409,000. (4) for title IV: A total of $32,946,000. (5) for title V: Military Family Housing, $1,304,523,000. C O S T VARIATIONS

SEC. 603. (a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), any amount specified in titles I, II, III, and IV of this Act may, at the discretion of the Secretary of the military department or Director of the defense agency concerned, be increased by 5 per centum when inside the United States (other than Hawaii and Alaska) and by 10 per centum when outside the United States or in Hawaii and Alaska, if he determines that such increase (1) is required for the sole purpose of meeting unusual variations in cost, and (2) could not have been reasonably anticipated at the time the request for such amount was submitted to the Congress. (b) When the amount named for any construction or acquisition in title I, II, III, or IV of this Act involves only one project at any military installation and the Secretary of the military department or Director of the defense agency concerned determines that the amount authorized must be increased by more than the applicable percentage prescribed in subsection (a), he may proceed with such construction or acquisition if the amount of the increase does not exceed by more than 25 per centum the amount named for such project by the Congress.

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